Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would gladly yield every honor which has been accorded me in war

a better world shall emerge out of the blood and carnage of the past.

Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one’s convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It’s the age-old struggle-the roar of...

On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other days and other fields will bear the fruits of victory

The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It’s the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.

Give me ten thousand Filipino soldiers and I will conquer the world.

The outfit soon took on color, dash and a unique flavor which is the essence of that elusive and deathless thing called soldiering.

Life is a lively process of becoming.

By profession I am a soldier and take pride in that fact. But I am prouder — infinitely prouder — to be a father. A soldier destroys in order to build; the father only builds,...

The holy mission has been completed

I have known war as few men now living know it. It’s very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.

Up to fifty atomic bombs should be dropped on Chinese cities,

I realize that advice is worth what it costs–that is, nothing.

I came out of Bataan and I shall return

In war, you win or lose, live or die-and the difference is just an eyelash.

The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

Americans never quit.

Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in...

[Erickson gave an address to the group gathered for the last time in Mankato that he described as very emotional. He told the group how gratifying it was to see all the young people, there...

Age wrinkles the body; quitting wrinkles the soul.

A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.

They died hard, those savage men-like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.

I see that old flagpole still stands. Have your troops hoist the colors to its peak, and let no enemy ever haul them down.

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation

There’s no security on this earth, only opportunity.

You are remembered for the rules you break.

The inescapable price of liberty is an ability to preserve it from destruction

No army has ever done so much with so little

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

In war there is no substitute for victory.

Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind

In war, indeed, there can be no substitute for victory

It is fatal to enter an war without the will to win it.

I realize that advice is worth what it costs — that is, nothing.

Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.

In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.

We are not retreating – we are advancing in another direction.

The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil...

Old Soldiers Never Die (Farewell Address to Congress),

I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any treat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.

It must be of the spirit if we are to save the flesh.

They died hard, those savage men – like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.

Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.

Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.

We are bound no longer by the straitjacket of the past and nowhere is the change greater than in our profession of arms. What, you may well ask, will be the end of all of...

I can recall no parallel in history where a great nation recently at war has so distinguished its former enemy commander.

Never give an order that can’t be obeyed.

In war, you win or lose, live or die – and the difference is just an eyelash.